Frédéric Moffet

This course is designed to introduce students to the language and histories of the moving image arts and the diverse ways in which artists have contributed to them. Throughout the semester we will examine a range of approaches to creating moving image work. We will compare and contrast established ?norms? with radical and experimental approaches to these various media, leading to an understanding of the rich, complex, and evolving landscape upon which individuals have been making, and continue to make, moving image art.

Students will engage with this expanded field through lectures, readings, screenings, meetings with visiting artists as well as becoming active in discussions and practitioners in the field via group projects.

Working in small groups, students will complete a series of short projects to introduce them to the various pathways of the department. By the end of the semester, students should have gain basic production and postproduction skills as well a good understanding of the key concepts relevant to contemporary film, video, new media, installation and animation.

This course is designed to acquaint first year, first semester Film, Video, New Media, and Animation (FVNMA) graduate students with the technical and conceptual aspects of the FVNMA department and to prepare students for their first formal critique. Students get authorized on FVNMA equipment and facilities.

Some examples drawn from contemporary art and current theoretical materials will be considered for discussion.

Students will have to write a project proposal and present work in progress in preparation for critique week. A group project at the beginning of the semester will introduce students to the available equipment and facilities.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.